Liner gauge



Oct. 15, 1929. e. L. FOPAY 1,732,301

LINER GAUGE Original Filed March 22. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 a 20 y 3/ 2/ Inventor" G. .Z.j0,00y,

' v By Attorney G. L. FOPAY LINER GAUGE Oct. 15, 1929 Original Filed March 22, 1926 2 Shoots-Sheet 2 Attorney Patented Get. 15, 1929 amt STATES PATET OFFICE GEORGE L. FOPAY, OF BLOOIVIFIELD, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO 1360. BRYDON, OF BLOOMFIELD, MISSOURI LINER GAUGE Substitute for application Serial No. 96,642, filed March 22, 1926.

Serial No. 389,077.

In common with the identified subject, of my abandoned application for patent filed March 22, 1926, Serial No. 96,642, the object of my present invention is the provision of an adjustable liner gauge for use in association with a linotype or intertype mold, and through the medium of which an adjustable liner may be set accurately in a type casting machine to cast a line of any length from four ems to twenty-eight and one-half ems,

including half-em measures.

My novel liner gauge is designed to be used in lieu of a plurality of liners such as at present employed and with the foregoing in mind my invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation showing the adjustable liner gauge of my invention as properly arranged relative to a linotype mold.

Figure 2 is a top plan view, partly broken away, of the same.

Figure 3 is a View of the inner side of my novel liner gauge, per se.

Figure 4 is an inverted plan view of the liner gauge per se. I

Figures 5, 6, and 7 are transverse sections of my adjustable liner gauge per se, taken in the planes indicated by the lines 5 5,

66 and 77, respectively, of Figure 1.

' Figure 8 is a detail perspective of the adj ustable liner.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The linotype mold illustrated is not of my invention, and it will be understood as hav ing a cap 1, a right hand liner 2, a thirty em liner 3, a longitudinal groove 4, and a space 5, the latter for gauge stops and adjustable line, as will be hereinafter made clear.

My novel gauge is preferably of metal though-Twould have it understood that the material of the gauge is not of the essence of my invention. Among other elements my novel gauge comprises a body 6. The said body 6 is recessed at its upper side to provide This application filed August 28, 1929.

the slot 7 which extends from a point adjaeent to one end of the body to a point adjacent the opposite end thereof. Surmounting the said body 6 and resting above the said opening 7 is a plate 8, attached at 9 to the end portions of the body; The said plate 8 is longitudinally slotted as designated by 10, and is equipped with teeth 11 and with numbered graduations 12 in association with said teeth. The body 6 is chambered at its underside and adjacent to one of its ends as designated by 13, Figures 3 and 5. Extending into the said chamber 13 and journaled in the body 6 is a rock shaft 1 1 that is equipped with a left hand gauge stop 15 which as shown in Figures 2 and 3 is adapted to occupy a longitudinal groove 16 in the inner side of the body 6 at one end thereof. Also fixed to the rock shaft let is a lever 17 movable in a slot 18 in the outer wall of the chamber 13 and opposed to a flat or partially curved spring strip 19, appropriately carried at 20 in the body '6 and extending in the chamber 13 and adapted to lay or move in said chamber 13. The inner side of the body 6 is characterized by a longi tudinal rib 20, designed to rest in the groove 1 ofthe mold. At 21 the body 6 is equipped with a right hand gauge stop which is fixed with respect to the bOC y .6 and extends laterally at right angles from the inner side of the body. In addition to the body 6 characterized and equipped as described, my novel gauge comprises a slide member 22 which has an upper projection 23, Figures 2, 6 and 7 ,disposed and movable rectilinearly in the slot 10 of the plate 8. The adjustable liner is shown in Figure 8 and is designated by 30, and in Figure 2 the said adjustable liner 30 is illustrated as positioned for placement in the mold. The liner 30 is held in position by a projection or liner guide 31 on the slide member 22 in'association with a hook-shaped catch 33, the shank 34 of which is movable rectilinearly in the slide member" 22 and is provided with a handle or finger piece 34* and is equipped with a spring 35, the said spring 35 being interposed between the handle 34L and the front side of the slide {member 22 and being designed to hold the hook-shaped portion of the catch in engagement with the liner.

The slide member 22 is adjustably fixed to the plate 8 of the body 6 through the medium of a finger latch 40, fulcrumed at 41, Figure 6, and yieldingly held by a spring L2 in one of the interdental spaces of the plate edge.

In the practical use of my improvement, the operator first sets the slide member 22 in desired position, indicated by the notches on the plate 8. The operator also places the liner 30 in the catch 33 and back of the slide member 22 and also places the liner 80 in the relation shown to the projection or liner guide 31, on slide member 22. Then after placing a right hand liner 2 and a thirty em liner 3 in the mold, the operator lifts the mold cap 1 and places the left gauge until the right gauge stop 21 will pass the right hand liner, allowing the right hand gauge stop and adjustable liner to enter the mold. It is the province of the operator to press the gauge firmly against the front of the mold, and to be sure that the projection or rib 20 on the gauge body is in the groove in the mold. The mold cap 1 is then tightened and the slide member 22 is released as is also the liner catch 33, and the slide member 22 is moved sufficiently far toward the right to clear the adjustable liner, whereupon the gauge is pulled from the mold and the liner is left in the mold. The operator thereupon casts a blank slug, and the metal behind the adjustable liner forms the balance of a solid liner, and the operation is then proceeded with in the same manner as if an ordinary liner were employed In addition. to the practical advantages ascribed to my novel adjust-able liner gauge, it will be noted that the gauge is compact and sturdy in construction, and is susceptible of ready manipulation in the use indicated I have specifically described the present and preferred embodiment of my invention in order to impart an exact understanding of the said embodiment in all of its details. I do not desire, however, to be understood as limiting myself to the construction as disclosed, my invention being defined by my appended. claims within the scope of which modifications may be made without departure from my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent,

body, a slidable member, means for detachably fixing the slidable member to the body, right and left hand gauge stops on the body, and means on the slide member for releasably holding a liner; one of the said stops being swingable and being subject to the action of spring means.

2. An adjustable liner gauge including a body, a slidable member, means for detachably fixing the slidable member to the body,

1. An adjustable liner gauge including a right and left hand gauge stops on the body,

and means on the slide member for releasably holding a liner; the said means for detachably fixing the slidable member to the body, comprising a toothed portion on the body, and a spring pressed latch on the slide member and adapted to enter interdental spaces of the toothed portion of the body.

3. In an adjustable liner gauge and in combination, a body chambered at its underside adjacent to one of its ends, said body being also provided with a longitudinal groove, and being further provided with a longitudinal slot, a spring strip carried by the body and extending into said chamber, a rock shaft j ournaled in the body and extending into said chamber, a stop fixed with respect to said rock shaft and adapted in one position to rest in said groove, and a lever movable in the chamber and in the slot is aflixed to said rock shaft and arranged against said spring strip.

1-. In an adjustable liner gauge and in combination, a body having a toothed portion, a slide member carried by said body, a latch carried by said slide member and yieldingly held in one of the interdental spaces of the toothed portion, a projection on the slide member and a member movable through the slidemember and spring-pressed and having a hook-shaped portion adapted to operate with the projection of the slide member in releasably holding a liner.

5. A gauge for use in association with a linotype or intertype mold and including a body having a longitudinal rib to enter a groove of the mold and also having a toothed and graduated portion, stops carried by the body, one of the said stops being adjustable, means for adjustably fixing the latter stop, a slide member carried by the body, a spring latch carried by the slide member and adapted to be yieldingly held in interdental spaces of the body, a projection on the slide member, and a hook-shaped spring pressed member carried by the slide member and adapted to cooperate with the said projection thereof in releasably holding a liner.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

GEORGE L. FOPAY. 

